Garment-hanger.



Patented Apr. 23, MIL

F. P. JOHNSON. GARMENT HANGER. (Applicatioz; am u 16, 1991.

(No Modal.)

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

FRANK P. JOHNSON, OF DANVILLE, PENNSYLVANIA.

GARMENT-HANGER.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 672,777, dated April 23, 1901. Application filed January 16, 1901. Serial No. 43,442- (No model.)

T0 at whom it may concern.-

' Be it known that I, FRANK P. JOHNSON, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Danville, in the county of Montour and State of Pennsylvania, have invented a new and Improved Garment-Hanger, of which the following is a full, clear, and exact description.

The object of the invention is to provide a new and improved garment-hanger which is simple and durable in construction, cheap to manufacture, easily extended for properly supporting a coat or other garment, and capable of being folded into a comparatively small space when not in use.

The invention consists of novel features and parts and combinations of the same, as will be fully described hereinafter and then pointed out in the claims.

A practical embodiment of the invention is represented in the accompanying drawings,

forming a part of this specification, in which similar characters of reference indicate corresponding parts in all the views.

Figure 1 is aside elevation of the improvement with the parts in an extended position. Fig. '2 is a sectional plan view of the same on the line 2 2 in Fig. 1. Fig. 3 is a side elevation of the same with the parts in a folded position. Fig. 4 is an end elevation of the same, and Fig. 5 is an enlarged transverse section of the same on the line 5 5 in Fig. 2.

The improved garment-hanger is preferably made of wire and consists, essentially, of side arms A and B and a supporting-hook O. The side arms A and B are approximately U-shaped and slightly-curved in an outward and downward direction when in an extended position,as is plainly shown in Fig. 1. The side arm A is formed at its inner end with rising portions A A terminating in a transversely-extending trunnion or pivot A on which are mounted to swing the side arm B and the supporting-hook O. The side arm B is formed near its inner end with similar rising portions B B terminating in spiral eyes B B respectively, through which extends the trunnion A as is plainly shown in Fig. 5. The supporting-hook O has a depending portion 0, extending transversely and terminating in a spiral eye 0 located between the eyes B B and through which extends the inner end of the trunnion A as indicated in Fig. 5. By having the rising portions A B and the depending portion 0' extending between the said rising portions it is evident that the said depending portion 0 of the supporting-hook forms a stop or abutment for the rising portions A B so that When the side arms A and B are in an extended position, as shown in Fig. 1, then the said side arms are limited in their downward-swinging motion and the several parts remain in the position shown in Fig. l-that is, with the side arms A and B properly extended and the supporting-hook C rising approximately in a vertical direction on the pivotal or central portions of the side arms.

A hanger made in the manner described is not liable to get out of order, is com posed of but few parts, and can be readily folded by swinging the side arms A and B upward, the

supporting-hook 0 extending in the openings of the side arms, as is plainly indicated in Figs. 3 and 4, so that the entire device takes up very little room when not in use.

Having thus fully described my invention, I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent 1. A garment-hanger formed of two side arms and a supporting-hook, one of said side arms being formed with a trunnion for the other side arm and the supporting-hook to turn on, said supporting-hook having a depending portion extending between the side arms and forming a stop for the side arms to rest on when extended, to limit the downward-swinging motion of the side arms and to hold the hook in an approximately vertical position relatively to the side arms, as set forth.

2. A garment-hanger formed of two side arms and a supporting-hook, one of said side arms being formed with a trunnion for the other side arm and the supporting-hook to turn on, said supporting-hook having a depending portion and the side arms having rising portions between which the depending portion of the hook extends to form a stop against which the rising portions of the arms abut, to limit the downward swinging of one of the side arms, and to hold the supportinghook in a vertical position, as set forth.

3. The herein-described garment-hanger, the arm and through which the pivot passes, IO consisting of two approximately U -shaped as set forth. arms, each formed at itsinner end with rising In testimony whereof I have signed my portions, one arm being formed with a pivot, name to this specification in the presence of 5 and the other with eyes through which extwo subscribing witnesses.

tends the pivot, and a supporting-hook hav- FRANK P. JOHNSON. ing a depending portion extending between Witnesses: the rising portions of the arms and terminat- HARRY CURTIN HARMAN,

ing in an eye arranged between the eyes of CHAS. M. JOHNSTON. 

